Insane BLOAT on latest update!

I also despise gutenberg ( I use the classic editor) and it just keeps getting worse and worse with this latest update. I noticed on the checkout page there are new “block” elements being forced whereas before they didn’t even exist.

Do you have any specific info on where you’re seeing the bloat and/or specific elements that were added? Are you seeing most of the bloat on the products page or also elsewhere?

@flowsheff

Gutenberg-enabled should be a question on install. It’s awful.

In order to create a list of all of the new auto-generated bloat files I’d have to rollback Woocommerce and do a compare. It is site-wide. I’m quite particular about how many scripts/styles I enqueue… So much so, that I had already dequeued a ton of Woocommerce garbage before this update.

What was once a page calling 20-odd scripts, is now calling 60+

Every site running Woocommerce right now is going to be have PageSpeed scores bottom-out due to the sheer number of scripts & styles being called.

If you have a couple dev sites laying around, run one on Woocommerce > 8.5 and one with the update. Get the Query Monitor plugin running (or simply watch the network tab) and prepare to be astonished.

Feel your pain, though, these days -even for sites using Gutenberg- an average WordPress site will benefit greatly from using a tool like Asset CleanUp or Perfmatters to manage what scripts and styles are loading on each page. Seems to essentially just be a requirement now, unfortunately.

I got the same issue when I updated to 8.5.1. It’s added a ton of javascript like react, redux or anything related to wc-checkout. I have rolled back to 8.4.

Hi folks ??

I just so happened to run a few tests of my own, a few hours ago, and the findings were fewer scripts with the latest version of WooCommerce, in comparison to the previous released one. Linked here are details.

Feel free to elaborate on your findings via this GitHub issue @johnnydanger27, @flowsheff, @hastibe, @jorcus.

Moreover, I’d like to link to the Woo Public roadmap, and this article from the Woo Developer Blog, for reference.

I hope this is helpful! Please let us know if you have any further questions or concerns.
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woocommerce since 8.5 is absolutely garbage for performance. i rolled back to 8.4 and probably stay here as long as its possible.

Hey, @cometto!

woocommerce since 8.5 is absolutely garbage for performance. i rolled back to 8.4 and probably stay here as long as its possible

I understand you are facing issues with WooCommerce 8.5, and would love to assist you in solving them.

Per WordPress forum guidelines, would you mind opening up a new thread for this so that we can keep things organized and offer more personalized support for you? We’ll be happy to help you out with this over there!

Have a wonderful day!